Mark Bennett | January 10, 2009
Austin criminal defense lawyer Dax Garvin laments in a comment to my Advice to a Young Criminal Defense Trial Lawyer post, “I just wish more cases would go to trial… it seems most clients justdon’t want to take the risk, and I fully understand and respect that.”
Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum, fresh out of [...]
Category: actual innocence, criminal defense lawyers, criminal practice, ethics and/or professionalism, pleas |
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Mark Bennett | January 9, 2009
I wrote here that
“Mock trial” is to trial as ballroom dancing is to gladiatorial combat
(which inspired my choice of Pollice Verso as the art for this blog).
Dallas criminal defense lawyer Robert Guest has found another metaphor, which he applies to pro se litigation, but which I shall misappropriate in a moment:
The problem: proceeding [...]
Category: become a better lawyer, criminal defense lawyers, criminal practice |
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Mark Bennett | December 27, 2008
For those Harris County ADAs who want, very anonymously, to express their feelings about being ordered to Pat Lykos’s coronation ceremony on January 1, Miami criminal defense lawyer Brian Tannebaum has posted a poll.
Category: Harris County District Attorney |
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